Portable gas or petroleum cook-stove



H. LSMITH.

` K Petroleum Cook Stove. No. 51,976. A

Patented Jany 9, 1866.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Trice.

HAMILTON E. SMITH, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PORTABLE GAS OR PETROLEUM COOK-STOVE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 51,976, dated January9, 1866.

To all whom it may conce/rn:

Be it known that I, HAMILTON E. SMITH, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county,Ohio, have invented a new and useful Portable Stove; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompan yin g drawings, making`part ot' this specification.

My invention relates to a form of portable cooking apparatus adapted forthe employment ot'petroleum or other burning-duid, or of commonstreet-gas, the same comprising an arrangement for optional baking orboiling by the use of the same burners, combined with equal bakingaction at all parts ot' the oven.

Figure l is a perspective view of a stove in condition for boiling andslow baking. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof in condition foractive and effective baking.

A is a cast-iron or other metallic table or stand, having in its ltop Btwo circular apertures, C C', and two oblong apertures or slots, D D'.

E E' are two rails, secured horizontally to' mediately over the innerends of the slots or` oblong apertures D D'.

I I' are two boiling-vessels, which rest upon the table A immediatelyover the outer ends of the slots I) D'.

The outer lamps, F" and F'", are capable of being shifted along therails E E', so as either to heat the boilers I and I', or so as todischarge their gases into the side i'lues, H and H', and thence intothe upper part ot' the oven. The effect of the side flues, H H', whenthus brought into communication with the lamps F" and F'", is to dry upthe vapors which arise from the viands in the act of cooking, and tocause them to be equally baked above as well as below and on all sides.

It is intended to use petroleum or coal-oil in the lamps; but alcohol orothersuitable burin ing-Huid may be employed.

I couvert this apparatus to use with ordinary street-gas by simplywithdrawing lamps F F' i F" F'" and applying as many ordinarygasbrackets. (See red lines fj"f"f"'.)

I claim herein as new and of my inventionl. The arrangement of a seriesof lamps or burners, ot' which part are shittable, in the describedcombination with an oven, G, having side tlues, H H', discharging intoits upper part, and one or more heat-inlets, C C', at its lower part,for the purposes set forth.

2. The arrangement of stand A and its described accessories, adapted foroptional baking or boiling, and for conversion to the use of movablelamps or ordinary gas-burners, in the manner set forth. C

In testimony of' which invention I hereunto set my hand.

HAMILTON E. SMITH.

Vitnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, JAMES4 H. LAYMAN.

